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No. 608,620. Patented Aug. 9, |898.

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TDE CLIP FUR BICYCLE PEDALS.

(Application led Mar. 8, 1897.)

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TOEMCLIP FOR BICYCLE-PEDALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,620, dated August 9, 1898. Application tiled March 8, 1897. Serial No. 626,432. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: clip to be applied to pedals of varying length.

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. NELSON, a The foot-bearing surface of the pedal is cov- 5o citizen of the United States, residing at Chiered with aroughened rubber sheet or a sheet cago, in thecounty of Cook and State of Illiof any suitable friction material B, which may 5 nois, have invented a new and useful Imbe cemented, riveted, or otherwise secured to provement in Toe-Clips for Bicycle-Pedals, of the bearing-surface. which the following is a speciiication. A In the application of the toe-clip to a pedal 55 My invention relates to an improvement in C the plate A2 rests upon the foot-bearing toe-clips for bicycle-pedals, and more espestrips n and m, while the clamps engage the ro cially to clips for that type of pedal having a centralbearing-sleeve Zof the pedal, which re centralbearing-sleeve for receivingthe pedalceives the pedal-crank D. crank bearing-pin. The clip may be stamped from a sheet of 6o My object is to provide a clip which may be spring-steel or other suitable metal, perfoapplied to the pedal without the use of any rated togive sufficient lightness, or it maybe 15 tool and which while performing perfectly the formed in any way to give it the propertiesm function for which it is intended yet shall be desired. so constructed as to permit its ready detach- A view of Fig. 2 makes it clear that an up- 65 ment in case of emergency or accident. ward force on the hook A', producing a downn A further object is to furnish a clip with Ward pressure upon the strip m, is resisted zo means for turning the pedal to the right poby a force exerted upon the clamp p by the sition for inserting the toe into the clip by sleeve Z and that should there be a slight use of the foot alone. Other features of imyielding under excessive force the clip, owing 7o portance will be pointed out in the descripto the acute angle which the clamp forms tion, with the plate A2, would resume the position 2 5 In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is immediately when sufficiently relieved from a plan View of a detached pedal supplied with the disturbing force. A similar reaction, inmy improved toe-clip, and Fig. 2 a vertical volving the clamp r and strip'n, would follow 75 section taken on line 2 of Fig. l and viewed a downward pressure4 upon the hook A'. as indicated by the arrow. When freed from the foot, the pedal rocks for- 3o The pedal is preferably constructed to afward, being overbalanced by the superior ford a broad bearing-plate for the foot, which weight of the front portion of the clip. The rests upon the foot-bearing surface of the curved end portion s altords a ready means 8o pedal and is supplied with downwardly-profor righting the pedal with the foot when it jecting spring-.clamps for engagingthe sleeve is desired to slip the foot into the clip.

3 5 portion of the pedal. In practice I provide clamps randp of such A is a toe-clip provided with an upwardly degree of stiffness that they will have a suffiand backwardly turned toe-receiving part A cient clamping force to prevent any loosen- 85 andl with a foot-bearing plate A2, which eX- ing of the pedal under ordinary usage, while tends back over the rear portion of the pedal in case of emergency or accident they will 4o and is curved downward, as shown, to afford permit the clip to be readily wrenched from a portion s, forming an angle with the footthe pedal under a sudden force.

plate.v The plate AE is provided with down- Minor changes in construction withinthe 9o wardly-projecting springclamps r and p, scope of my invention may be made. IIence which converge preferably as shown. I do not wish to be understood as limiting my- 45 The clamps r and p may be provided by selfl in matters of detail by theparticular de stamping them from the plate A2, as shown, scription given above. and should be of a width to afford sufficient What I claim as new, and desire to secure 9 5 springincss, but narrow enough to enable the by Letters Patent, isi--m The combination Withapedal having acensaid clamps comprising sections stamped traisieeve or bearing for the pedal-crank, of from said plate and left unsevered at one a toe-clip, comprising a toereceiving part, a portion, as set forth.

foot-bearingplate resting upon the foot-bear- CHARLES O. NELSON. 5 ing surface of the pedal, and having a back- In presence 0f- Wardly-projecting part forming an angle With J. H. LEE,

said plate and clamps for engaging said sleeve, R. T. SPENCER. 

